inventory management in production-remanufacturing system has been receiving a great deal of attention in recent years. in literature review, production environment is composed of two sections. the first section is included: production process, remanufacturing process and other options considered in reverse logistics. the second section is included: collection and sorting processes. determinati...

This paper aims to investigate the integrated production/distribution and inventory planning for perishable products with fixed life time in the constant condition of storage throughout a two-echelon supply chain by integrating producers and distributors. This problem arises from real environment in which multi-plant with multi-function lines produce multi-perishable products with fixed life ti...

This paper presents a study that characterizes, formulates, and solves the reverse logistic network design. A Mixed Linear Program model is formulated that systematically minimizes reverse logistics operating costs for the strategic problem facility location of collection sites, cannibalization and recycling. The facility location is a central issue of the logistics networks. In this paper we a...

In the recent decade, special attention is paid to reverse logistic due to economic benefits of recovery and recycling of used products as well as environmental legislation and social concerns. On the other hand، many researches claim that separately and sequential planning of forward and reverse logistic causes sub-optimality. Effective transport activities are also one of the most important c...

Cold chain logistics guarantees the quality and freshness of some especial agriculture products. At present cold chain logistics monitoring system can just monitor single point of the temperature in the cold chain vehicle body, it cannot estimate the space temperature distribution of cold chain vehicle body. This paper introduces a cold chain logistics monitoring system based on ARM Linux. The ...

Many businesses have now realized that a Reverse Logistics system can be used to gain competitive advantage. Even the best retailers and vendors now have reason to review how their returns programs are managed. New technologies and service providers now offer an opportunity to improve overall ‘total returns performance’. This means not only reducing the ‘total cost of returns’, but utilizing re...

Background: Many businesses want to include sustainability in their manufacturing operations. A conventional economic production quantity (EPQ) model is employed calculate the ideal number of products manufacture at one time. The goal this study was look current research on sustainable and supply chain models suggest prospective future directions based existing knowledge gaps. Methods: In persp...

taking advantage of the new technology, supply chain has already created a chain of cooperation among its own companies, and, in a larger scale, within a universal environment. superior to these technologies is rfid which is an abbreviation for radio frequency identification. rfid is one of the most advanced technologies in the contemporary world. perishable products and hose with short time ex...

Nowadays, major challenges in the cold chain of perishable products, such as dairy products, are that these products do not reach customers on time. Answering the question of how to make the cold supply chain of perishable products more agile, the possibility of more control over this issue can be increased. This study tries to investigate the factors affecting the agility of the cold supply ch...